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  Title: A Mother’s Secret Author: Tess Stimson Published: May 2020, Avon Format: Papberback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Of course you trust your family… But should you? When every mother’s worst nightmare becomes Maddie’s reality, her first instinct is to turn to those closest to her for support: her loving husband, her brilliant children, her caring mother. But as the truth about what happened to her baby starts to…

Title: The Vacation Author: T.M. Logan Published: July 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 374 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Seven days. Three families. One killer. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday – a group of families enjoying a week together in the sun. Four women who have been best friends for as long as they can remember making the most of a luxurious villa in the south…

  Title: Don’t Look for Me Author: Wendy Walker Published: September 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher via Publicist Summary:  In Wendy Walker’s thrilling novel Don’t Look for Me, the greatest risk isn’t running away. It’s running out of time. One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. She doesn’t want to be found. Or at least, that’s the story. The car abandoned miles…

  Title: The Vanishing Half Author: Brit Bennett Published: June 2020, Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover, 343 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Mothers , a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together…

Title: Chaos Author: Iris Johansen Published: September 2020, Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces CIA agent Alisa Flynn, who is willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she’s ever encountered. When CIA agent Alisa Flynn flaunts the rules by breaking into a mansion in the middle of the night, she skillfully…

Title: The Silent House Author: Nell Pattison Series: Paige Northwood, #1 Published: September 2020, Avon Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  If someone was in your house, you’d know . . . Wouldn’t you?  But the Hunter family are deaf, and don’t hear a thing when a shocking crime takes place in the middle of the night. Instead, they wake up to their worst nightmare: the murder of…

Title: For the Best Author: Vanessa Lillie Published: September 2020, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publicist Summary:  Suspected of a murder she can’t remember, a troubled woman takes an unusual approach to proving her innocence in this gripping thriller from the bestselling author of Little Voices. When Jules Worthington-Smith’s wallet is found next to a dead man, she becomes the prime suspect in his murder. After…

Title: One by One Author: Ruth Ware Published: September 2020, Scout Press Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain. Getting snowed in at a beautiful, rustic mountain chalet doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world, especially when there’s…

Title: The Woman in the Mirror Author: Rebecca James Published: March 2020, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond.…

Title: Girl Gone Mad Author: Avery Bishop Published: September 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 412 pages Source: Publicist Summary:  They say everything is fun and games until someone gets hurt. Well, someone did—and now the game has changed… Emily Bennett works as a therapist in Pennsylvania, helping children overcome their troubled pasts—even as she struggles to forget her own. Once upon a time, Emily was part of a…

Title: White Out Author: Danielle Girard Series: Badlands Thriller, #1 Published: August 2020, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 364 pages Source: Author Summary:  After surviving a car accident on an icy road in Hagen, North Dakota, Lily Baker regains consciousness with no idea where or who she is. Scattered Bible verses and the image of a man lying in a pool of blood haunt her memory. The same night…

Title: The Lions of Fifth Avenue Author: Fiona Davis Published: August 2020, Dutton Books Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! “A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering truth.”—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker’s Wife In nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis’s latest historical…

Title: The Friendship List Author: Susan Mallery Published: August 2020, HQN Format: Hardcover, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  [ ] Dance till dawn [ ] Go skydiving [ ] Wear a bikini in public [ ] Start living   Two best friends jump-start their lives in a summer that will change them forever… Single mom Ellen Fox couldn’t be more content—until she overhears her son saying he can’t go to…

Title: The Woods Author: Vanessa Savage Published: August 2020, Grand Central Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher   Summary:  Two girls went down to the woods… But only one came back There’s a lot from Tess’s childhood that she would rather forget. The family who moved next door and brought chaos to their quiet lives. The two girls who were murdered, their killer never found. But the only…

Title: The Daughters of Foxcote Manor Author: Eve Chase Published: July 2020, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: ARC E-copy, 386 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  Readers of Lisa Jewell and Simone St. James will delight in this haunting, touching story of mothers, daughters, and belonging–and the devastating lies families tell themselves in order to survive. An isolated forest estate. A family with a terrible secret. The discovery that changes everything. England, 1970.…

  Title: Her Last Flight Author: Beatriz Williams Published: June 2020, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Source: Publisher via TLC BookTours   Summary:  In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with…

Title: Until I Find You Author: Rea Frey Published: August 2020, St. Martin’s Griffin Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In Until I Find You, celebrated author Rea Frey brings you her most explosive, emotional, taut domestic drama yet about the powerful bond between mothers and children…and how far one woman will go to bring her son home.  “Frey is a rising star in the suspense scene” –…

Title: What You Wish For Author: Katherine Center Published: July 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passion and joy for living. But she wasn’t always that way. Duncan Carpenter is the new school principal who lives by rules and regulations, guided by the knowledge that bad things…

Title: Family for Beginners Author: Sarah Morgan Published: May 2020, HQN Books Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  New York florist Flora Donovan is living the dream, but her bubbly optimism hides a secret. She’s lonely. Orphaned as a child, she’s never felt like she’s belonged anywhere…until she meets Jack Parker. He’s the first man to ever really see her, and it’s life changing. Teenager Izzy Parker is holding…

Title: The First Lady Author: James Patterson Published: March 2019, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  From the world’s #1 bestselling writer comes a book that takes politics and mixes it with suspense creating a must-read thriller. Sally Grissom is a top secret service agent in charge of the Presidential Protection team. She knows that something is amiss when she is summoned to a private…

Title: Dear Emmie Blue Author: Lia Louis Published: July 2020, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: ARC E-copy, 311 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  In this charming and poignant novel, teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it; now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone…

Title: The First to Lie Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan Published: August 2020, Forge Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher/Publicist Summary:  Bestselling and award-winning author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan delivers another twisty, thrilling cat and mouse novel of suspense that will have you guessing, and second-guessing, and then gasping with surprise. We all have our reasons for being who we are—but what if being someone else could…